Mechanical stimuli have fundamental roles in articular cartilage during health and disease.
Chondrocytes respond to the physical properties of the cartilage extracellular matrix (ECM) …

Mechanical stress plays a critical role in cartilage development and homoeostasis.
Chondrocytes are surrounded by a narrow pericellular matrix (PCM), which absorbs …

ABSTRACT A switch from autophagy to apoptosis is implicated in chondrocytes during the
osteoarthritis (OA) progression with currently unknown mechanism (s). In this study we …

Objective Temporomandibular joint (TMJ) osteoarthritis (OA) is a type of TMJ disorders with
clinical symptoms of pain, movement limitation, cartilage degeneration and joint dysfunction …

Temporomandibular joint (TMJ), a site that is often impacted by osteoarthritis (OA), is
biomechanically linked with dental occlusion. Tissue responses in TMJ condyle to …

Backgrounds Abnormal cartilage calcification is one of the pathological changes of
temporomandibular joint (TMJ) osteoarthritis (OA). Recent studies have reported that …

Connexons form the basis of hemichannels and gap junctions. They are composed of six
tetraspan proteins called connexins. Connexons can function as individual hemichannels …

The exquisite cartilage architecture maintains an orderly dynamic equilibrium as a result of
the interplay between chondrocyte functions and the unique extracellular matrix (ECM) …

Objective To investigate whether mechanical stress induces mineral deposits that contribute
to matrix degradation at the onset of osteoarthritis (OA) in temporomandibular joint (TMJ) …

The temporomandibular joint (TMJ), which is biomechanically related to dental occlusion, is
often insulted by osteoarthritis (OA). This study was conducted to clarify the relationship …